 The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide ; him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because...  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 39by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Townsend Warner - 1915 - 196 pages
...goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it. We solicitously and apolo- • getically caress and celebrate him because he held on his way...said Zoroaster, "the blessed Immortals are swift." SOME SCRAPS When the pit seats itself in the boxes, the gallery will soon drive out both and occupy... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...exposed, to be shamed out of our nonsense of all kinds, and made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms. AS men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their f.\ creeds a disease of the intellect. They say with those •*» •*" foolish Israelites: "Let not... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods -^ him because men hated him. "To the persevering RALPH WALDO EMERSON 319 mortal," said Zoroaster,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...Zoroaster,0 "the blessed Immortals are swift. " 38. As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are (heir creeds a disease of the intellect. They say with those...Israelites, "Let not God speak to us, lest we die. 6 Speak thou, speak any man with us, and we will obey." ° Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God... | |
 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. In "Compensation," which deals with a subtler philosophic idea, Emerson used a wealth of illustration... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 404 pages
...an injury if it be anything more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming. . . . As men's prayers are a disease of the will so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. (On Self-Reliance. ) You cannot, I repeat, however dogmatically inclined, construct a theology out... | |
 | Michael Joseph Keane - 1923 - 166 pages
...your lips, and push your affairs and you will not be safe to the end of your days." EMERSON. — " As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." NEWTON. — " My principal method for defeating error is by establishing the truth. One purposes to... | |
 | 1924 - 1042 pages
...is on his side. But this "God" of Mr. Emerson's is not one who is interested in prayers or creeds. "As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect." I should hate to put a weapon in the hands of Mr. Emerson's bewildered enemies, but it must be clear... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress...said Zoroaster, "the blessed Immortals are swift." 340 34* As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...gods love him because men hated him. "To the pi severing mortal," said Zoroaster, "the blessed Immort are swift." As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are th' creeds a disease of the intellect. They say with those f poli Israelites, 'Let not God speak to... | |
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